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Maybe if the girl in question wasn’t 19(legally an adult) and was on the cover full bodied with pregnant belly showing I would say glamorization but this is not the case. She is an adult even though her age indicates “teen.” While I am in no way condoning teen (13-16 or 17) pregnancy it is a reality for many and hiding it shouldn’t be the way to solve it, better education should be.

Not having read the story, I don’t know how much the young woman talks about the pregnancy, but based on the cover shot being innocuous and the headline not even being remotely pregnancy related, I don’t think this is glamorization of teen pregnancy. It seems like it’s just a circumstance and I think the reporter would have been wrong not to include it since it WILL hit news stands if she is an up and coming runway model. The pregnancy has a valid reason for being in the story since it will have an impact on her life as a model, as well, and that is what they are writing about. Just my opinion.

Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of teens reading this magazine (TEEN Vogue, afterall) don’t have the resources this young woman has and will have available to her following the birth of her baby. Whether or not she is a woman (19 years old) does not matter, this is a magazine solely aimed at teen girls, and I feel it’s extremely irresponsible of the editors to 1) use her as a cover model and 2) glamorize her pregnancy. Hopefully, this will spark a discussion between parents and their teen girls about birth control and preventing pregnancy.

I am not usre why thi squestion is even posed. It is clear from the article that Vogue didn’t know she was pregnant at the time. She also indicaties how hard it has been for her. Whether we want to believe it, teen agers are getting pregnant. This isn’t ewven a “young ” teenager, she is an adult. This is completly realistic.

The media aand society have portayed romance and sex as something so casual things like this happen. We need to go “old school ” and get back to old fashioned family values.